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The summer dashboard update for the Xbox 360 has gone live, bringing new Netflix features to the Microsoft console — and only that console. According to the Xbox.com site, “This exclusive partnership offers you the ability to instantly stream movies and TV episodes from Netflix to the television via Xbox 360. Xbox 360 will be…
EA Sports have announced that the North American release date for FIFA 10 has been kicked back a few weeks, from October 2 all the way back to October 20. The date pushes it perilously close to the release date for the series’ arch-rival, Pro Evo 2010, which will be out in North America on…
You know John Carmack. He’s the programming wizard responsible for games like Doom. You know what John Carmack thinks? He thinks that Sony could release a new console before Microsoft. Here’s his rationale: “The whole jockeying for who’s going to release the first next gen console is very interesting and pretty divorced from the technical…
While drumming up support for the new 360 avatar marketplace, Microsoft showed off how your little guy could dress up as a character from Gears of War, or Monkey Island. Turns out those were just the tip of the iceberg. Now that the marketplace is live, we can see that there are clothing options available…
Hudson’s Wii sports game Deca Sporta is flexing its way onto the Nintendo DS. Loosely translated to Deca Sporta Ten Sporting Events On The DS, the game features ten games on, well, the Nintendo DS. Those games feature ping pong, clay pigeon shooting, arm wrestling, golf, skydiving, climbing, bobsledding, rugby, kick volleyball and cheerleading. There…
With the game now out, there’s not as much work for the Street Fighter IV dev team to do over on the game’s official blog. So they’ve decided to start posting some concept art instead. Proper concept art, too, with pencils and sketchbooks and everything. Very nice stuff. Wish more developers did this, instead of…
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 summer system update has gone live for all Xbox LIVE members. It’s a mandatory update. The update is being rolled out worldwide over the next few hours. Company spokesperson Major Nelson also points these three points out: • While you can browse and purchase Avatar items and full Xbox 360 games in…
There was an enjoyable rumour posted over the weekend that a Mr. Steven Spielberg was currently in talks to produce the Halo movie. A movie Microsoft will only say is “on hold”. Responding to questions we had over the Spielberg rumour (and indeed the future of the movie itself), a Microsoft spokesperson told Kotaku: We’re…
Third person role-playing-game Risen from German developer Piranha Bytes has been refused classification in Australia. No reasons were initially given why the game has been banned Down Under. Kotaku Australia contacted Risen‘s Australian distributor Madman Interactive and were told that the country’s Classification Board felt the game contained “sexual activity and drug use related to…
Some of you may be too young to remember this, but back in the mid-90’s, Bullfrog were kings. Theme Park, Magic Carpet, Syndicate…everything Peter Molyneux‘s former studio released turned to gold. But then Bullfrog were sold to EA. And Molyneux went off and formed Lionhead. And…all people were left with was an innate desire to…
Frito pie, Dr. Pepper and Six Flags Over Texas. Memories of my childhood growing up in 1980s Texas. And I have vague, vague memories of this: Pac-Man Land. Sure, these could be fuzzy memories of something I wish I would’ve have experienced between the ages of 5 and 7 years old, but here it is,…
Times are tough. 2009’s gaming lineup isn’t as strong as 2007’s, or 2008’s. So people aren’t buying as many consoles as they used to. But those that already have one, well, they’re playing the crap out of them. Researchers Nielsen have conducted their latest study on people’s gaming habits, and have found that compared to…
Modder Pocket Lucho is a mini-arcade cabinet modding genius. For the last five months, he’s been fine tuning his small-sized Neo Geo cabinet design. In the above clip, Lucho shows the fruits of his labor. *applause* Elotrolado via YouTube via Hack A Day via Gizmodo]
Because it’s still “just” a DS, there doesn’t seem to be as much buzz over the DSi as there was the last DS handheld revision, the DS Lite. Just because there’s no buzz, however, doesn’t mean the thing’s not selling. As we’ve told you the third iteration of the DS has already sold 6.86 million…
Japanese game maker tri-Ace is famous for its Square Enix published games. Titles like the Star Ocean series and the Valkyrie Profile games have cemented tri-Ace’s reputation. But tri-Ace’s upcoming role-playing-game End of Eternity (Resonance of Fate in the West) is being published by SEGA, not Square Enix. Explains tri-Ace developer and EoE director Takayuki…
Microsoft’s Games on Demand pricing isn’t exactly consistent across this orbiting ball of dirt we all call home. What costs $20 in one place costs $40 (or sometimes more) in another. So we asked Microsoft, why the discrepancy? Microsoft HQ said the pricing decisions outside the US were the responsibility of that particular territory. So,…
ToHeart2 on the go! The PC erotic game is coming to the PlayStation Portable — minus the underpants. Developed by Leaf, the game was originally released on the PlayStation 2. An adult 18-years-old-and-up version dubbed ToHeart2 XRATED was released in December 2005. ToHeart2 is arriving back on the PlayStation platform with ToHeart2 Portable. How do…
Normally, we wouldn’t care so deeply about merely the genre a developer was working on, but since the developer in question is 2K Boston – the team behind BioShock – yeah, we care. Because rumour has it – and has had it for a while now – that Ken Levine and crew are working on…
As seen at Shinjuku’s Yodobashi Camera by reader Chinpokomon.
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